Shelby Klingerman, Content Curator |

Oracle’s David Bain and Matthew Haavisto presented at RECONNECT 18 about how to manage configurations in your PeopleSoft environment. Configurations will allow you to have a more flexible and extended PeopleSoft by eliminating or isolating costly customizations. Here’s a sneak peek of what the presentation covered:

Two Benefits of Configuration

Achieving a Great User Interface

It’s important to align your User Interface with your business and streamline navigation and user interaction. Enabling greater user proficiency and productivity is important. Ultimately, you could reduce or eliminate the need for training, documentation or support.

Reducing or Eliminating Customizations

With configurations, you can remove or isolate customizations. It will make new image uptakes easier, cheaper and faster. You will continue to meet unique, important requirements. Vanilla might work best for everyone!

Utilizing Page and Field Configurator

Some common changes to pages that people use Page and Field Configurator for are hiding the entire page, hiding a field, making a field required, changing a field label, adding a default value or making a field display only. The steps for using Page and Field Configurator are:

1. Make your changes.
2. Validate your changes.
3. Determine who sees your changes.
4. Apply your changes.

Learn More

To learn more about managing configurations and utilizing Page and Field Configurator, check out the full slide deck from the presentation: Managing Configurations in Your PeopleSoft Environment.

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